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Hi after long time - I do not have time for ZT now, because of my work. This pack should have been bigger, but I haven´t made new animals in few months, so I decided to release it. I´ll return to finish some of my old stuff probably in winter. Animals: Cavendish´s Dikdik, Oribi, Camelus Knoblochi, Desert Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Bongo, Gobi Ibex, Himalayan Ibex, Tian Shan Ibex, Giant Sable Antelope Peters´ Gazelle, Bright´s Gazelle, Bactrian Deer, Manchurian Wapiti, Sichuan Deer, Japanese Sika Deer, Vietnamese Sika Deer, Coues White-tailed Deer, Sonoran Pronghorn, Oregorn Pronghorn, Domestic Yak Fringe-eared Oryx (reworked), Hyracotherium, Sonoran Collared Peccary, Nyassa Wildebeest, Western White-bearded Wildebeest, Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest, Blue Wildebeest, Coke´s Hartebeest, Lelwel Hartebeest, Common Tssessebe Himalayan Goral, Ruwenzori Duiker, Somali Wild Ass, Damara Dikdik, Atlas Wild Ass, Nubian Wild Ass, Mongolian Saiga, Saiga Antelope, Taiwanese Serow, Poll Merino, Siberian Ibex (reworked) Harrington´s Mountain Goat, Burmese Goral, Burchell´s Zebra, Speke´s Gazelle, Bay Duiker, Red Brocket, East African Oryx, Bhutan Takin, Blesbok I also reworked my old Siberian Ibex, East African Oryx (renamed Fringe-eared Oryx, East African Oryx is a new animal in this pack) and Sika Deer (now Manchurian Sika Deer ingame). Compatibility: Find Out! Enjoy! Hawkkeyes ungulate pack part8partA.ztd fringe eared oryx.ZTD siberian ibex.ZTD sika deer.ZTD Hawkkeyes ungulate pack part8partB.ztd

Well I have finally done it. DD now has lists of all Hawkkeye critters up to December 2025. This should help people find a file. The lists are pinned at the top of each category. It includes the name, uca, ztd name, Habitat, and country. And in the categories I have grouped the types together. So all the dogs are together, all the foxes are together, etc Example: Armadillo Brazilian Three-Banded Armadillo hwbtbarm.uca brazilian three banded armadillo.ztd Desert South America Nine-Banded Armadillo hwnbarm.uca ninebanded armadillo.ZTD Grassland Eastern USA Northern Naked-Tailed Armadillo hwnntarm.uca northern naked tailed armadillo.ztd Rainforest South America

I'm planning on building an ungulate (hoofed mammal) themed zoo featuring different species from different terrain types. I want to include a few different giraffe species, several species of antelope, zebras, horses, camels, etc. Stay tuned!

Well I have finally done it. DD now has lists of all Hawkkeye critters up to December 2025. This should help people find a file. The lists are pinned at the top of each category. It includes the name, uca, ztd name, Habitat, and country. And in the categories I have grouped the types together. So all the dogs are together, all the foxes are together, etc Example: Armadillo Brazilian Three-Banded Armadillo hwbtbarm.uca brazilian three banded armadillo.ztd Desert South America Nine-Banded Armadillo hwnbarm.uca ninebanded armadillo.ZTD Grassland Eastern USA Northern Naked-Tailed Armadillo hwnntarm.uca northern naked tailed armadillo.ztd Rainforest South America

I am working on another new fence, and this one uses some new graphics. It is based on the fences used at Milwaukee County Zoo, seen here for example, except taller. There is a lot to fine tune but it was exciting. Making new fences is a little challenging but very rewarding. I am testing my animals out lots, many seem functioning well but there is more I want to test. You can see my kudu in this exhibit mixed with zebra, wildebeest and gazelle.

Animals used: Dromedary Camel Addax Scimitar-Horned Oryx Kordofan Giraffe Masai Giraffe Reticulated (in game) Giraffe Kirk's Dik Dik African Buffalo Common Wildebeest Springbok Grevy's Zebra East African (Beisa) Oryx Soemmerring's Gazelle Arabian Oryx Rhim Gazelle Bactrian Camel Goitered Gazelle Black Rhinoceros White Rhinoceros Gemsbok White Dromedary Camel Guanaco Sonoran Pronghorn Gaur Banteng Japanese Serow Japanese Sika Deer Markhor Wild Yak Himalayan Tahr Mountain Zebra Kashmir Stag Sable Antelope Roan Antelope Greater Kudu Bongo Pygmy Hippopotamus Okapi Chapman's Zebra Fringe-Eared Oryx Coke's Hartebeest Black-Faced Impala American Bison Oregon Pronghorn Aberdeen Angus Suffolk Sheep Large White Pig Anglo-Nubian Goat Desert Bighorn Tian Shan Ibex Walia Ibex Fallow Deer European Red Deer Moose Elk Pere David's Deer Visayan Warty Pig Red River Hog North Sulawesi Babirusa African Warthog About 60 species total (Foilage is hidden in some of the screenshots for better viewing of the animals) Freeform Mode - Ungulate Zoo.zoo

Hawkkeye is a machine!

My brother in Christ, Hawkkeye me boi, the humblest person I ever met... "I do not have time for ZT now, because of my work. This pack should have been bigger" and then proceeds to release a huge pack of reworks and new files... I have three free days a week and still think I have almost no time for new items until summer vacations D: Great work as always!

I think the only downloads you need are the hot pink concrete fences and the colored fences combined.

If you used winrar did you save it as a .rar file as those do not work in ZT if you change .rar to .ztd. Post one of your attempts here and cricket or I will see what we can suss out.

Winter Sports Pack by Savannahjan has been updated. Updated by Cricket on April 20, 2026 to reduce file sizes by using the shrink program, to create a combined .ztd file and to create a folder of single .ztd files. Updated by Cricket on October 25, 2015: Lines for rock suitability were removed. Habitats were changed to 9411 so that they are now exhibit placeable. All figures are now water placeable. Files were "cleaned up".

Goosifer & the admin team of ZooTek where this pack is hosted... And anyone else following my works are gonna kill me after this, but I had to do a last change to this pack despite said it was definitively concluded. A couple of months ago, we were having a very enrichment dialogue at discord about the use of AI. I'm not changing my mind on the use of AI as a tool for some stuff. However, I already told that this is my most personal work ever and I didn't even include some text written by me, despite how much I actually like it! For anyone who already got my skinwalker or my extinct animals, I've been adding some short tales instead of some random animal fact text taken from wikipedia or similars. I guess some ZT players do not read the plaque, so I'm adding this detail in an attempt to induce reading habits again! I toke my time to read several chinese traditional fables, so I can make mine a tribute to chinese literature. I'm not Shakespeare or Confucius, of course, but I want you to enjoy the short reading of these. Hope you like it! Also, I replaced all AI pictures from the plaque window and inserted some pencil sketches I made in order to display the fables. Despite trying my best with GIMP, with the game resolution, you'll probably miss most details. That's why I'm posting the pictures in this thread alongside the fables. Enjoy! Changelog: - All AI generated images and text in animal info plaques were removed. - Added fables written by myself into the animal plaque info text. - Added handmade drawings made by myself into the animal plaque image. Loong: Qilin: Fenghuang: Nian: Pixiu: Brown Panda: Files removed 03-May-26. Get the pack here! Stay tunned for when they are uploaded as a whole pack again!! 🧧🧧

Currently working on an all-bird zoo since I love birds. 🐦 Bird zoo will include toucans, parrots, birds of prey, ostriches, emus, cranes, and more. Staying on the topic of birds, here are one of my babies ❤️💕

So I'm thinking about creating another bird centered zoo but all of the species will be ones that are labeled "endangered", "threatened", or "critically endangered". I'll probably also add some other endangered animals like the black-footed ferret, European hamster, scimitar-horned oryx, bengal tiger, and okapi just too add some more variety. However, about 80% of the animals in this zoo will be endangered bird species such as the red crowned crane, whooping crane, kakapo, military macaw, African penguin, grey and black crowned crane, and more. Keep your 👀 out 😊🐦

Is it just me or does anyone else just really like their mods? Sorry if this sounds weird but a majority of my mods are from those three users because I really like the quality of them in my opinion. Buffzoo's marine megapacks are really cool too. I'm able to exhibit some cool freshwater fish and tropical aquariums. Just a few of my favorite users/designers.

Well I'm glad to hear you like my mods, for one! I do recommend having a good browse through the downloads area here every now and then. There are a ton of really great and very useful files hiding around even where you might not expect! I would also do a forum search for the phrase "must-have downloads" or similar, I know there's been a few times people have asked all of us and we've all given lists of all of our favorites and what we find useful to build with. Definitely worth exploring. I still find new things to use from the archives regularly.

I just realized those height-based concrete fences could be used to make what look like buildings. That's really neat, now I have some ideas.

For animals I kinda stuck to the earlier designers like Ghirin, Genkicoll JohnT Moondawg Dr Rick Jordan and Coolperson I still sort of need to start playing more with the newer animals But I truly always love the red panda from Vondell and already wìquite a bit from Hawkeye

From Jay: The crash is most likely because parts of the exhibit fences for the Expedition Africa2 and Expedition Africa exhibits are 1 tile away from the map's edge. When they eventually deteriorate, ZT would crash trying to figure out how to get a maintenance worker to fix them. Exhibit fences are not needed against zoo walls, since zoo walls can act like exhibit fences and they do not deteriorate. The following topic at DG has information on this ZT problem: http://www.ztcdd.org/DG/index.php?topic=5938.0

Thank you!

Such a wonderful zoo!

You are one big steamtrain Zoobuiling engineer Hayley! Well done on this fine looking result with soooo many ungulates I love it!

Very nice! You did a great job on this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1woy76xk61KkarZ_Um4RhE4DYKUksbNBvfr2_ubF3ig8/edit?usp=sharing This is a link to the spreadsheet I'm working on for Zoo Tycoon. I was inspired by the one Digsu made a few years back. It's got all of the needed information, but it's not organized and doesn't use color, making it hard to tell info apart. When making mine, I wanted to include some color and make sure similar stats were grouped together. I've also included some modded animals, I'm very picky about which modded animals I use (I like the ones that feel vanilla). The animals are organized how they are within the game, followed by the online bonus animals, DLC animals, and then the modded animals. If you want to mess around with the filters, just make a copy! It's not finished, but I figured that it really didn't matter if I showed it off now or later. Plus, as an added bonus, people can help out too, like catching mistakes I've made or figuring out how stats work. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy it!

This sounds like fun! We look forward to seeing it!

So my birthday was actually last Friday but just now finished up this zoo. There's a lot of pink items in here (I love the color pink!). You're more than welcome to take a walkthrough. Birthday 2026 Zoo.zoo

Happy belated birthday!!

Happy belated birthday!!

That's awesome! Congrats on figuring it out!

It was way easier than I thought. I was able to make two combined ZTDs with antelopes and birdies. antelopes_combined.ztd Birbs_Combined.ztd

I'm so glad to hear this!! That's the method I use

Ok guys I used WinRar and I FINALLY got it correct and I am so freaking happy. THANK THE LORD!!!!!

My fault, it´s called Commander Islands arctic fox.

Oh wow fern Respect girl That will have taken ages ..... I am now going there to read up and get the things i like to use .

You can't have gift and food in the same building as it causes problems.

Animal species include: plains zebra wildebeest bluebuck impala springbok East African (beisa) oryx dimorphic ostrich topi hartebeest sable antelope roan antelope greater kudu nyala cape fox bat eared fox African elephant African lion African buffalo Kirk's dikdik Thomson's gazelle mongalla gazelle Senegal parrot brown necked parrot red bellied parrot common hippopotamus greater flamingo African wild dog (Their exhibit is large because they live in medium to large packs) spotted hyena Boer goat (domesticated goat breed) Domestic guineafowl cheetah leopard giraffe black rhinoceros tawny eagle About 18 species in total There are also a few restaurants as well as some small animal houses. I also included a snack station with Pepsi, 7up, and Coca-Cola drink machines and a snack machine. Foilage is hidden in some of the photos so you can see some of the animals better. :)

I finished my first ever bird themed zoo and boy was this an endeavor. Used about 62 species total. List of animals used: Blue & Gold Macaw Red & Green Macaw (Green winged macaw) Scarlet macaw Blue throated macaw Golden collared macaw Red Shouldered (Hahn's) macaw Military macaw Blue winged macaw Keel billed toucan Toco toucan Sulfur crested cockatoo Galah Turquoise fronted amazon Yellow headed amazon Red crowned amazon Cuban amazon Dimorphic ostrich Emu Roseate spoonbill Common/Indian peafowl African Grey Parrot Golden conure Indian ringneck parakeets Bald eagle Wedge-tailed eagle Steller's fish eagle Tawny eagle Red tailed hawk Harris' hawk Secretary bird Blue jay Senegal parrot Red bellied parrot Brown necked parrot Yellow-fronted parrot Lord Derby's parakeet Demoseille crane Whooping crane Red crowned crane Lady Amherst's pheasant Golden pheasant Silver pheasant Andean flamingo Chilean flamingo James's flamingo Greater flamingo American avocet White stork Brown pelican Mallard ducks Grey crowned crane Eclectus parrot Red fan parrot Red winged parrot Resplendent quetzel Budgerigar Cockatiel Greater rhea Yellow breasted fruit dove California condor Emperor penguin If you would like a walk-thru, here is the saved game file Freeform Mode - BirdWorld Avian park.zoo

Such a lovely bird zoo! Thanks for sharing it with us!

Beautiful job!!!

Sneak peek 👀

Very nice! Would you be willing to post your zoo so we can take a walk-through?

Hello! I bought Zoo Tycoon 1 in Circuit City around the time it came out in early 2002 (I've never forgotten saving my allowance up for the $32) and I've been hooked ever since playing it on and off over the years! I still play 1 and 2 using my scratched up but still working perfect disks. I only thought to look for ZT2 mods in 2025, and then ZT1 mods this year and found this site. Looking forward to adding new things to my favorite game!

You mean this thing? I have not run the checker on it, so I can't say how well it might or might not work. homersimpson.zip

I'm quoting the most useful tips I've found from The Compost Heap and posting them in this thread. Their site hasn't been updated since 2003, but there is a lot of great info there :D The Guests and General Tips: - Zoo Guests can see 10 spaces, and they officially ‘view’ an exhibit that is within 3 spaces of them. - In some games (scenarios especially), it’s a good idea to push your admission up to $100 to stop the influx of guests. You can be very profitable with 200 guests, or you can have 1000 guests, be more profitable, but suffer from too much trash, too much crowding, etc. By setting the admission high, you get to control how your Zoo grows. - If you already have a lot of guests and you want them to leave, you will have to spend a lot of money to get them to go. Although a fun way to persuade people to exit is to let a couple animals escape, a less harmful way is to sell off 70% to 80% of your animals. The less things to see, the quicker Guests leave the Zoo, and when the amount of guests that you wanted to leave have left, you can increase your admission and put the animals back in. Safe yourself this aggravation and control Guest population from the start. - It is usually wise to build double lane footpaths, or leave enough space to upgrade your footpath to two lanes in the future. When you have a zoo that has 700-1000 guests, many main paths need to be 3 or 4 spaces wide to deal with the large number of guests. - To help with traffic, you can build “observation areas”: Add blocks of footpath onto a side of your main path. This creates a little "nook” that Guests will move into to view an exhibit, thereby not crowding the main foot path. - Fence tips: Try not to use chain link. Sure, you save a hundred bucks or so on the exhibit, but stick pole fences are only 5 dollars more per unit and usually last 4 more months then chain link before they deteriorate (and don’t let those in game tool tips fool you, stick pole is stronger then chain link). Wooden slat is a good “middle of the road” fence. Concrete chain might look a bit uglier then iron bar, but it has the same features and life of iron bar, its only slightly weaker, and you save about 30$ per unit of Concrete chain over iron bar. - Don’t over fence! Several animals live fine in low fencing, and there is no reason to surround these animals in tall fence. If you don’t need a really strong low fence, low wooden slat fencing lasts just as long as the most expensive low fencing, but its 40 dollars a unit cheaper. A list of who takes low fencing is in the fence formula sheet: - Having a problem with trash? Don’t like restrooms? Just build restaurants. A restaurant contains all food types, seating, disposal, and restrooms. This means you do not have to build trash cans or restrooms, people in need of those services will go to your restaurant. A single restroom well placed in a zoo can handle between 200-300 guests. There is no trash in your zoo, and no trash cans that cause guests to lose happiness. The one disadvantage of having only restaurants is that you will make more money with stands and vending. - If you are setting up food shacks, you might as well make as much money as possible of the concessions. Use Burger Shacks, not Pizza Stands, as Burger shacks do not fill up the people as quickly as pizza stands, cost less in overhead and initial cost, and are more profitable then Pizza Stands. - The best money making attractions are the animal theater and the carousel. These are far better than the elephant ride, and the small size of the carousel allows it to go nearly anywhere. - For non-money making attractions, the Japanese Garden is the best by far. The petting zoo is OK, but it doesn’t generate the happiness level for the amount of space it takes up. - Gift shops/stands do not generate very much profit at all. Most of the time the only reason you put them in the zoo is to satisfy those guests who are always looking to buy a souvenir. Most guests want a souvenir when they enter or exit the zoo, so putting a gift shop/stand near the zoo entrance is a good way to avoid having many Gift Shops or Gift Stands. Gift stands can go nearly anywhere, which is convenient, but it cannot compete with the speed and sales of the Gift Shops. A gift stand is considered “too crowed” if two people are nearby waiting for a souvenir, so it is best placed in a large zoo in the remote areas. NOTE: In Dinosaur Digs, the Zoo Tycoon add on pack, you can now move your gift stands to a new area after you have placed it. This gives you the ability to watch the sales of a gift stand, and if you think it could make more money somewhere else in the zoo, you can move it there without any penalty. - A great place for a Gift stand is in the "foyer" of your zoo entrance (by the admissions booth). You can put things in that enclosed area, so why not put a Gift Stand in there? - Although its fun to make a “garden area” in your Zoo, the happiness level that you get from it will in no way compete with the happiness gained through a new exhibit. Although you might want to make a large garden, or a area devoted to animal houses or attractions, if you don’t intersperse these areas with exhibits, they may actually decrease overall Guest happiness. - Although listed under the Animal Foliage section, Cherry trees, Japanese maples, Pacific Dogwood, and Wild Olive trees all increase guest happiness. Cherry trees are nice looking, and add a lot of happiness for their cost and size (more then any topiaries, flowers, and most statues.)